The effect of family relationship and gender on the aggression level of adolescents

Pages: 453-456
Divya Mohindroo and Rashmi Prakash (AIPS, Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noidas, UP)

Adolescence from Latin adolescence meaning “to grow up” is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood (age of majority), but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage. For the adolescent, this period is a dramatic challenge, one requiring adjustment to changes in the self, in the family, and in the peer group. Social psychologists define aggression as international harm doing, they realized that determining whether some action that caused harm to other was intentional or unintentional is a difficult task. Thus, aggression means the behavoiur directed towards the goal of harming another living being, who is motivated to avoide such treatments. Family relationship provides education for the experience of love and it also revels the ultimate measuring of love as the connecting medium between the temporal and the eternal realms. The core of the needed inner transformation lies in a new vision of the positive family relationship which helps adolescents in handling their aggressive behaviour. The present research aims to study the effect of family relationship and gender on the aggression level of adolescents. The sample size was100 schools students of class 9th to 12th – 50 boys and 50 girls. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant difference between family relationship and gender on the aggression level of adolescents. Also, it was hypothesized that parental acceptance will lead to a lower aggression level among male and female adolescents whereas parental concentration will lead to a lower aggression level among male and female adolescents. It was also hypothesized that parental avoidance will not show a significant difference in the aggression level of male adolescents whereas parental avoidance will show a significant difference in the aggression level of female adolescents. The study reported a significant difference between family relationship and aggression level of male adolescents whereas there was not a significant difference between family relationship and aggression level of female adolescents. The effect of parental acceptance and parental concentration on the aggression level was seen significant in male adolescents and female adolescents. Also, the effect of parental avoidance on nthe aggression level was not significant in male adolescents but significant difference was there in female adolescents. In Indian culture, the upbringing of females is done in such a manner that they do not give much importance to themselves and family bond is automatically stronger in them. In today’s scenario the male adolescents want more liberty and freedom so parental avoidance hardly affects the aggression level among them. It is the family relationship where an adolescent experiences parental love and healthy family relationship display greater affection and caring attitude towards their children which leads to family relationship display greater affection and caring attitude towards their children which leads to more favourable emotional and social adjustment.